ep·i·de·mi·ol·o·gy

(ĕp′ĭ-dē′mē-ŏl′ə-jē, -dĕm′ē-)

The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.

[Medieval Latin epidēmia, an epidemic; see epidemic + -logy.]

ep′i·de′mi·o·log′ic (-ə-lŏj′ĭk), ep′i·de′mi·o·log′i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.

ep′i·de′mi·o·log′i·cal·ly adv.

ep′i·de′mi·ol′o·gist n.

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Noun

epidemiologist - a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases

medical scientist - a scientist who studies disease processes

Translations

epidemiolog

επιδημιολόγος

epidemioloog

epidemiologist

n → Epidemiologe m, → Epidemiologin f

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ep·i·de·mi·ol·o·gist

n. epidemiólogo-a, especialista en el estudio de enfermedades epidémicas.

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epidemiologist

n epidemiólogo -ga mf, médico mf especializado en la propagación de enfermedades en poblaciones

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(12.) Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Position statements 2004: national epidemiologist awareness day.

Capacity of state and territorial health agencies to prevent foodborne illness

"Not all unpasteurized juice contains salmonella," says Josefa Rangel, a CDC epidemiologist (scientist who studies the cause and spread of infections).

OJ ALERT

"There are enough human studies that show increased incidence of bladder cancer," says epidemiologist Richard Clapp of Boston University's Department of Environmental Health.

Saccharin: bittersweet

"The solid weight of biological research" argues that electric and magnetic fields should not be able to cause cancer, said British epidemiologist Richard Doll in a New York Times interview.

Shock journalism

"I'm concerned that our health department will be extended beyond our epi capacity," says Hawaii State Epidemiologist Sarah Park whose state faces an ongoing outbreak with one mosquito-borne disease, dengue, and the threat of two others, Zika and chikungunya.

Assessment Shows Nation's Guard is Down Against Zika Virus and Mosquito-Borne Diseases

In Georgia, travelers categorized as having "some risk" for exposure (i.e., had contact with Ebola patients while wearing appropriate personal protective equipment) must be observed taking their temperatures each day by an epidemiologist via video direct active monitoring.

Ebola active monitoring system for travelers returning from West Africa--Georgia, 2014-2015

Winer, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington.

Proof of protection: condoms limit infection by cervical cancer virus

Tauxe is a medical epidemiologist, chief of the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC.

International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases

"The studies that were done in the early 1980s to see if caffeine caused birth defects in humans weren't powerful enough to detect an effect," notes Michael Bracken, a Yale University epidemiologist.

Caffeine: the inside scoop

UCLA epidemiologist James Enstrom has calculated that if mortality rates from 1940 were applied to 1988,4 million Americans would have died that year.

Fear of phoning

Epidemiologist Steven Whitman, PhD, MPhil, MS, who was dedicated to improving the status of underserved communities and fighting injustice, died July 20.

Whitman, advocate, epidemiologist

First, even though all state and local health departments used the same definition of epidemiologist, jurisdictions supplying counts might have applied the definition differently.

The epidemiology workforce in state and local health departments United States, 2010